The AP is reporting that Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani has a health care plan .. sort of:
Giuliani offered the broad outline of his plan but his campaign did not provide many specifics. Asked how much his plan would cost and how many of the people without insurance it would help, Giuliani said he won’t have those answers for two or three months.
Um, hate to break it to him, but that’s not a plan. That’s an idea. A plan, according to Answers.com, is ” a scheme, program, or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective.” An idea, on the other hand, is “something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity.”
An idea might lead to a plan, if you work on it. But announcing a “plan” two or three months before you’ve worked out the details is putting the cart before the horse.
But no one would pay attention if he announced an idea, now would they?
It reminds me of John Kerry’s “plan” to get us out of Iraq. He STILL hasn’t presented that plan in the Senate, has he?
See, this is why you shouldn’t screw around with your “good” communications director behind your wife’s back. You eventually have to get rid of her and hire someone who will let you run around in public saying stuff like this.
Ghouliani has a plan? Hope it’s as good as putting his command center in the WTC.